Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora
Volume 1, Part 1
Published on 9. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
402 pages
978-0-87013-632-0 (ISBN)
Description
Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. The book addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-632-0 (9780870136320)
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Person
Ruth Simms Hamilton was a teacher and researcher at Michigan State University for 35 years, who won many awards for her work. She was Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs, Director of the African Diaspora Research Project, and a core faculty member of the African Studies Center and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University.
Content
Contents
Introduction
Rethinking the African Diaspora: Global Dynamics | Ruth Simms Hamilton
The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem and New Directions for Research | Edward A. Alpers
The Diaspora in Yemen | Tim Carmichael
Historicizing the African Diaspora | Joseph E. Harris
African American Studies in Libraries: Collection Development and Management Priorities | Howard Dodson
Two Academic Programs in the African Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Studies and U.S. Africana Studies | Milfred C. Fierce
The Diaspora in Indo-Afro-Ibero-America | Jorge Silva Castillo
African Diaspora Passages from the Middle East to East Asia | Michael C. Thornton
Portrait of the Past: Black Servicemen in Asia, 1899-1952 | Michael C. Thornton
Two Courtiers of African Descent in the Kingdom of Judah: Yehudi and Ebedmelech | John T. Greene
Portrait of the Past: African Moslems in Yugoslavia | Michael C. Thornton
The World Is All of One Piece: The African Diaspora and Transportation to Australia | Cassandra Pybus
A Little-Known Chapter in African American and Russian Cooperation | Joy Gleason Carew
A Perspective on African Diaspora: Cultural Workers and Communities in Russia | Michael C. Thornton
Passages and Portraits of African Descent People in Germany: From Ancient Times to the 1960s | Ruth Simms Hamilton
African Resistance to German Colonialism and Its Legacies, 1884-1913 | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti
Reassessing Diaspora Connections and Consciousness: Global Africa and World War I | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Brothers in Arms? African Soldiers in Interwar France | Dana S. Hale
Increasing Resistance to Colonialism in Africa after the "Great War" | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Orchestrating Race, Nation, and Gender: African Peacekeepers in Germany, 1919-1920 | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Anti-Black Reigns of Terror in Great Britain and the Americas in 1919: Similarity and Simultaneity | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Contributors
Introduction
Rethinking the African Diaspora: Global Dynamics | Ruth Simms Hamilton
The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem and New Directions for Research | Edward A. Alpers
The Diaspora in Yemen | Tim Carmichael
Historicizing the African Diaspora | Joseph E. Harris
African American Studies in Libraries: Collection Development and Management Priorities | Howard Dodson
Two Academic Programs in the African Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Studies and U.S. Africana Studies | Milfred C. Fierce
The Diaspora in Indo-Afro-Ibero-America | Jorge Silva Castillo
African Diaspora Passages from the Middle East to East Asia | Michael C. Thornton
Portrait of the Past: Black Servicemen in Asia, 1899-1952 | Michael C. Thornton
Two Courtiers of African Descent in the Kingdom of Judah: Yehudi and Ebedmelech | John T. Greene
Portrait of the Past: African Moslems in Yugoslavia | Michael C. Thornton
The World Is All of One Piece: The African Diaspora and Transportation to Australia | Cassandra Pybus
A Little-Known Chapter in African American and Russian Cooperation | Joy Gleason Carew
A Perspective on African Diaspora: Cultural Workers and Communities in Russia | Michael C. Thornton
Passages and Portraits of African Descent People in Germany: From Ancient Times to the 1960s | Ruth Simms Hamilton
African Resistance to German Colonialism and Its Legacies, 1884-1913 | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti
Reassessing Diaspora Connections and Consciousness: Global Africa and World War I | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Brothers in Arms? African Soldiers in Interwar France | Dana S. Hale
Increasing Resistance to Colonialism in Africa after the "Great War" | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Orchestrating Race, Nation, and Gender: African Peacekeepers in Germany, 1919-1920 | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Anti-Black Reigns of Terror in Great Britain and the Americas in 1919: Similarity and Simultaneity | Ruth Simms Hamilton
Contributors